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August 22, 2009
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August 13, 2009
The Premises, I Has Vacated Them
Well, here we go. In a few hours I hop aboard an aerospace plane and launch skyward in a ballistic arc that takes us up to about 230,000 feet at a top speed of Mach 7.6, giving us a nice smooth ride from Minneapolis, MN to Austin, TX in a little over twenty-two minutes. Just enough time to finish the complimentary martini. Astrophyyyyyyyyssssssics, FUCK YEAH!
What? What do you mean this thing hasn't entered commercial service yet? I have to ride in a subsonic turbojet? Like an animal? Balls.
What? What do you mean this thing hasn't entered commercial service yet? I have to ride in a subsonic turbojet? Like an animal? Balls.
August 12, 2009
How Fantasy Stole Your Precious Bodily Fluids
(I wasn't gonna post... I wasn't gonna post... but there I was, up to my hindbrain in freakin' revisions, when I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as though a thousand lolcats had suddenly hazd cheezburger, and gone silent.)
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The Gollancz Twitter feed coughed up this, a weird little ditty with the misleading title "How fantasy took over science fiction." Christ, I thought, not this again, although this sort of thing is cyclical, rather like the flu, so it's bound to come 'round and 'r
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The Gollancz Twitter feed coughed up this, a weird little ditty with the misleading title "How fantasy took over science fiction." Christ, I thought, not this again, although this sort of thing is cyclical, rather like the flu, so it's bound to come 'round and 'r
August 9, 2009
Until Armadillo
I am re-posting my ArmadilloCon schedule; barring some unforeseen outrage or triumph, this will be my placeholder public post for the next several days.
The only adjustment I have is to note that the reading on Sunday will be followed by an interview / question-and-answer session.
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Friday, August 14
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Give or take)-- Writer's Workshop
I will be one of the sixteen instructors at this year's Armadillocon writer's workshop, which will be going on most of
The only adjustment I have is to note that the reading on Sunday will be followed by an interview / question-and-answer session.
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Friday, August 14
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Give or take)-- Writer's Workshop
I will be one of the sixteen instructors at this year's Armadillocon writer's workshop, which will be going on most of
August 7, 2009
Pedantry
Dear Intarwebz:
If you find yourself in the 1920s or 1930s, in a milieu ruled by the internal combustion engine, and you're starting to toy with anachronisms like transistors and atomic power, you're no longer in the realm of "steampunk." I say this only because steampunk is a fun aesthetic and always has been, and it would be a shame to dilute the word beyond all sensible meaning.
As to whether or not it may be InfernoKrusher, well, InfernoKrusher is the warm, pulsating heart of fiction itself. W
If you find yourself in the 1920s or 1930s, in a milieu ruled by the internal combustion engine, and you're starting to toy with anachronisms like transistors and atomic power, you're no longer in the realm of "steampunk." I say this only because steampunk is a fun aesthetic and always has been, and it would be a shame to dilute the word beyond all sensible meaning.
As to whether or not it may be InfernoKrusher, well, InfernoKrusher is the warm, pulsating heart of fiction itself. W
August 2, 2009
A Random Wonderful Thing You Should See At Least Once
I'm going to be off the intarwebz until Tuesday. Try not to smash the place up too much while I'm gone.
I leave you with this little tidbit from YouTube, Fred Astaire's rendition of "Puttin' on the Ritz" from the 1946 film Blue Skies. Arguably, his most famous filmed dance number is the "ceiling dance" he did in Royal Wedding a couple years after this, but as neat as that one is, I think this performance better emphasizes his speed and precision (and don't forget, he was freakin' 47 when he did t
I leave you with this little tidbit from YouTube, Fred Astaire's rendition of "Puttin' on the Ritz" from the 1946 film Blue Skies. Arguably, his most famous filmed dance number is the "ceiling dance" he did in Royal Wedding a couple years after this, but as neat as that one is, I think this performance better emphasizes his speed and precision (and don't forget, he was freakin' 47 when he did t
I For One Welcome Our Martian Dinosaur Partners in Cross-Planet Reality Television Opportunities
Blatantly stolen from TNH's sidebar at Making Light, I now urge you to scoot your undeserving simian eyeballs over to Strange Horizons so you can read "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs," by Leonard Richardson.
August 1, 2009
Twit For Tat
I done gone an got m'self a Twitter feed.
http://twitter.com/scottlynch78
Right now my global media empire is a recursive loop-- the Twitter feed links here, the Livejournal links to the Twitter feed. There are potentially seconds of amusement to be had clicking these links!
I will make a much more thorough search for people to follow when I get back from Armadillocon; I just snagged a couple for the time being to hide my nakedness.
http://twitter.com/scottlynch78
Right now my global media empire is a recursive loop-- the Twitter feed links here, the Livejournal links to the Twitter feed. There are potentially seconds of amusement to be had clicking these links!
I will make a much more thorough search for people to follow when I get back from Armadillocon; I just snagged a couple for the time being to hide my nakedness.
ArmadilloCon 31 Schedule (Tentative)
I will be the author guest of honor this year at ArmadilloCon, down in beautiful Austin, Texas from August 14-16.
A tentative schedule has winged its way into my inbox. Many thanks to the volunteers that toil over this stuff (at convention after convention, year in and year out), trying to stitch all of the variables of time and personnel together into something not unlike a four-dimensional Lego sculpture.
Any additions or alterations will be noted as they take place.
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Friday, Augu
A tentative schedule has winged its way into my inbox. Many thanks to the volunteers that toil over this stuff (at convention after convention, year in and year out), trying to stitch all of the variables of time and personnel together into something not unlike a four-dimensional Lego sculpture.
Any additions or alterations will be noted as they take place.
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Friday, Augu
July 28, 2009
I should really just staple my palm to my face already. It's gonna be there awhile.
Ever wonder where female gamers get the idea that many of the people running the games business are members of a slobbering idiot boys' club that long ago purged itself of all members whose IQs were still scraping the double digits?
From Ars Technica: EA puts sexual bounty on the heads of its own booth babes.
From The F-Word: EA games invites convention attendees to sexually harass 'booth babes.'
Good god, EA foisting this infantile shit on their own 'booth babes' was bad enough, but broadening the
From Ars Technica: EA puts sexual bounty on the heads of its own booth babes.
From The F-Word: EA games invites convention attendees to sexually harass 'booth babes.'
Good god, EA foisting this infantile shit on their own 'booth babes' was bad enough, but broadening the
